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February 13, 2007 18:16 IST
Joining the issue on Special Economic Zones, the TDP chief and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday said "market rate" should be paid to farmers if their lands were to be acquired for any project.
Accusing the Congress government in the state of "making a mockery of SEZs by turning them into a money-spinning venture for real estate dealers", he warned of "dangerous consequences" if such an approach was continued.
"It is better to leave the issue of acquiring land to the private parties who set up industries," Naidu said while initiating debate in the Assembly.
The Opposition Leader made a scathing attack on the Rajasekhara Reddy government for resorting to "forcible acquisition" of farmlands in the name of infrastructure and irrigation projects and SEZs.
He alleged that hundreds of acres of prime lands on the city outskirts were being sold at throw-away prices to the associates of the ruling party in the name of promoting software industry.
"The SEZs have become reservoirs of corruption," he said. Referring to the Governor Rameshwar Thakur's address to the House on the opening day of the Budget session on Monday in which he had assured that no wetland would be acquired for SEZs, Naidu cited instances of forcible acquisition of cultivable lands.
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